How To Win Friends And Influence People, Iranian Style

**Ja'chyra** · 12-14-2005, 09:40

This should be fun.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/4527142.stm

Iranian leader denies Holocaust

Ahmadinejad's remarks echo recent statements
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has courted further controversy by explicitly calling the Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry a "myth".
"They have invented a myth that Jews were massacred and place this above God, religions and the prophets," he said in a live television broadcast.

Mr Ahmadinejad called for Europe, the US or Canada to create a Jewish state there, instead of the Middle East.

Israel swiftly denounced the president's comments.

"We hope these extremist comments by the Iranian president will make the international community open its eyes and abandon any illusions about this regime," Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Mark Regev told AFP news agency.

Mr Ahmadinejad's latest declaration reiterates comments he made last week in which he said he did not accept six million Jews were killed by the Nazis, remarks which were widely condemned.

The president also sparked international outrage in October when he said Israel should be "wiped off the map".

Sounds like the build up to some nastiness to me, but it's a well known fact that I know nowt.

**Prodigal** · 12-14-2005, 10:32

Funny, you think he's trying to out do the former Iraqi minister of information, or he's just practising his stand-up routine?

**Marcellus** · 12-14-2005, 18:33

If only we could just take him to Auschwitz.

**Alexanderofmacedon** · 12-14-2005, 18:41

Dig a few feet and you'll find some thousand mass graves...

**Fragony** · 12-14-2005, 18:55

Originally Posted by Marcellus

If only we could just take him to Auschwitz.

Not much to see there, once been there with my school. The gaschambers in auschwitz are reproductions build in 1947.

**Viking** · 12-14-2005, 19:04

After statements like this, the UN membership of Iran is a joke.

**Geoffrey S** · 12-14-2005, 19:22

The guy is berserk; knowing that the US is currently tied up in Iraq and can, right now, only issue warnings and knowing that the UN generally doesn't do much else in such matters probably doesn't really help.